The Toymaker quotes from Doctor Who

The Toymaker

I'm bored. I love to play games but there's no-one to play against. The beings who call here have no minds, and so they become my toys. But you will become my perpetual opponent. We shall play endless games together, your brain against mine.

The Toymaker

(to Sgt. Rugg and Ms. Wiggs) You fail me again, and I'll smash you like a stack of plates! (to make himself clear, the Toymaker picks up the only non-smashed plate and smashes it)

Your infantile behaviour... Is beyond a joke.

... No, of course I mustn't. You very nearly caught me then, hmmm.

The Toymaker

Make your next move, Doctor. Make your move.

But if I do, this place vanishes, hmmm?

The Toymaker

... And then you have won completely...

... And if this place vanishes, then the TARDIS, and the rest of us, will vanish also.

The Toymaker

Correct. That is the price of success. Make your last move, Doctor. Make your last move.

The Toymaker

Donna Noble, this is for you. Let me tell you vhat happened vhen de Doctor, he vas leaving you. He met eine friend called Amy Pond! Und he loved Amy Pond! Yes, he be liking de redheads. Und they went to and fro in time und space, but... Amy Pond was touched by de Weeping Angel, und she died! [Cuts the strings of Amy's puppet.]

She died of old age.

The Toymaker

Well, that's all right, then! Und then he was meeting Clara. Mmmmmm! But she vas killed by a bird! [Cuts the strings of Clara's puppet.]

She still survives in her last second of life.

The Toymaker

Well, that's all right, then! But then de Doctor met Bill. Not Stooky Bill, but lady Bill. But she was killed by de Cybermen! [Cuts the strings of Bill's puppet.]

But her consciousness survives.

The Toymaker

Oh well, that's all right, then!

The Toymaker

I came to this universe with such delight. And I played them all, Doctor. I toyed with supernovas, turned galaxies into spinning tops. I gambled with God and made him a jack-in-the-box. I made a jigsaw out of your history. Did you like it? The Master was dying and begged for his life with one final game, and when he lost, I sealed him for all eternity inside my gold tooth. [Smiles revealing his golden tooth.] There's only one player I didn't dare face. The One Who Waits.

Who's that?

The Toymaker

I saw it, hiding, and I ran.

What do you mean?

The Toymaker

Hmm. That's someone else's game.

The Toymaker

I made every opinion supreme. That's the game of the 21st century. They shout and they type and they cancel. So I fixed it. Now everybody wins.

And everyone loses.

The Toymaker

The never-ending game.

I don't understand why you're so small! You can turn bullets into flowers! Think of the good you could do. So tell me why you don't!

The Toymaker

You know full well this is merely a face concealing a vastness that will never cease, because your good and your bad are nothing to me. All that exists is to win or to lose.

And you know full well that I've had many faces, containing something far more. So come with me. Leave this tiny world. We can take your games back to the stars, we can play across the cosmos. We can be... celestial.

The Toymaker

The Time Lord and the Toymaker?

Infinite games.

The Toymaker

And yet... I have fallen in love with humanity. This world is the ultimate playground! All of the sport, the matches, the medals, the gambling and the anger... And the children, shackled to their bedrooms with their joysticks and their buttons. You make games out of bricks falling upon other bricks, you are exceptional! And then there are the mind-games, oh... the dating and ghosting, the deceit and the control, you make me dizzy! I am in no hurry to leave this place.